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Just to bad they couldn't keep 200k after the first month LOL
You guys are just as bad as the mouth blowers about SWG's NGE!!
It's so sad to see!!!
Okay Mr. factual Information only,
Show the supposed reports where "subs keep increasing". After this press release, show any other or any other factual, documented evidence that subs are increasing. And do not go the date, that is still reporting launch period info.
And no, before you ask, I cannot show that the game is losing players either. However I can tell you this: after spending $80 on the collector's edition, the pre-order/EA thing, the best Buy mount, the AOC frag mat along with other AOC stuff, I quit playing before my first month was up.
So if the game is losing dedicated players like me, who spent a ton of money and time on the game, followed it for years, do you think that bodes well for the game? My opinion is no.
The issue, as I have said before isn't the people playing or the people not playing. The issue isn't numbers. The issue is that the game has many broken or unfinished (incomplete) areas that hurt gameplay and enjoyment of the game. The issue is this: will people continue to play or come back to play when things are fixed. I think the community is fed up and will not give the game time to right the ship. Hopefully I am wrong though.
What i highlighted is the BIGGEST mistake gamers can make cause after all these years it had to become clear that people who act that way with games are often the most disappointed people around forums/games. And each and every new releaed game we see the same type of people who followed a game for years, upgraded their systems and become disappointed wit the game release.
aoc + OP = epic fail.
aoc is crap maybe next time failcom will release a game right not pay for beta like they did with aoc.
Holy GuacoMOLE.
A couple of people posting about leaving on a message board means nothing in the big picture. Most of the casuals are having fun in-game and don't even visits boards like this. Please keep things in perspective.
Supbro
And please do not simply copy and paste comments from another forum. You are adding nothing to the discussion and your posts are beyond ignorant. And posts like these are why many people are leaving the game and community and until you fanbois wake up and see what state the game is in, you will only get a shell of a broken game.
You are not the type of consumer Funcom is targeting, a hardcore finish the game in a week type player. The game is for the casual gamer, built for the casual gamer. All the people i have talked to love the game. Your missing out on some great siege battles, too bad for you
Supbro
Oh, I suddenly got it! You're actually playing LOTRO, you have only missed the title of the game you're playing.
And the forum section.
DB
Denial makes one look a lot dumber than he/she actually is.
1. WoW wasn't this incomplete when it announced and no way did WoW the same number of people cancelling after the free month.
2. Arrogance. WoW never called itself the Steak of MMOs.
Waiting for the next thing
Rock a FailCom avatar now and express your disgust with pride!
The truth hurts...
Funcom RX
I'd be more than happy to be "stuck" with WoW if they went over to a Crytek-like engine and redid Azeroth and added a bit more sandbox style of gameplay.
A couple of people posting about leaving on a message board means nothing in the big picture. Most of the casuals are having fun in-game and don't even visits boards like this. Please keep things in perspective.
Supbro
Supbro, how can you possibly say this? You advocate factual information and say to keep things in perspective but what you say here is nothing but an assumption. Unless of course you know most of the casuals who still play and what their forum habits are.
I go by what I know. I started AoC with 8 others. Every one of them, including me, has quit. While not indicative of the entire AoC population, it tells me that I am not the only one that thinks the game has problems since we are all seasoned MMO vets.
No one cares which MMO's you are playing or have played. Nor does anyone care what your computer specs are.
Alot of what you say is cosmetic and not a cornerstone of the game itself. WoW did have stability issues and class balance issues. Of course this was 4 years ago when the only major MMO's around to compare to were EQ, UO, and DAOC.
AoC's major issues arent art on armor or placeholders, its core game mechanic problems, although it could certainly use a consmetic makeover seeing as how my level 76 looked pretty much the same since level 20. Non working gear stats, memory leaks, female toons doing less dps. I mean come on, did they even run their own game before they released it?
Lack of PvP rewards? WoW never touted itself as a PvP heavy game and before they fooked it up with spoonfeeding honor for epics, it was a half way decent reward system. Hell in AoC you get power points or w/e for just logging in... LOL.
And you want to talk about pulling the wool over eyes? I have never felt so deceived by a game release as I did with Conan. I understand games have issues at release, but this was ridiculous. So I protested the only way I could and cancelled my account.
No one cares which MMO's you are playing or have played. Nor does anyone care what your computer specs are.
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People seem to mash a bunch of WoW memories together for a distorted picture of what launch was like. The game actually launched in excellent shape. The first few days saw some server problems, but they cleared up pretty quickly.
The major problems with the servers started a month or two after launch, when the existing servers had exceeded capacity and they were still working to bring the next server farm online.
Yes, WoW had some serious frustrations in the opening months, but not only was the game full of content (although I believe two 50+ zones didn't make it in with the initial launch), but their stability problems were the result of increasing strain on the servers. WoW was growing subscribers steadily from launch onwards. If you look at the AoC servers, the populations are shrinking at an alarming rate.
The frustrating thing about AoC is the game clearly had the potential to have that "snowball" effect, with subscriptions increasing over time, if Funcom had only waited and not launched the game so prematurely.
The money gained from earlier box sales is dwarfed by the revenue potential they have lost over the next two years.
My bet is AoC will level off some where under 300,000 actives, combining US and EU. That will provide a good return on investment for Funcom, but this game could have been a million+ active game!
Maybe Gaute has plans to join Richard Garriot in space, so he needed to rush the launch to buy his spot with the Russians? ;P
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I have to ask the question. Does this 700,000 active accounts include everyone who got onto the game via a buddy key?
You cant use buddy keys yet.
Knights who say Ni website!
I guess that answers my question, thanks.
You cant use buddy keys yet.
Buddy keys wont be usable for a while. They dont want people on the fense playing on a buddy key right now. FC wants to keep feeding them lines of bs through PR and fanboys like the OP hopeing they can get a few more box sales. If people got in with buddy keys right now they would never sell another box.
i personally have only seen the us launch of wow from the forum user perspective since i live in the eu, and it launched half a year later here. So i can only comment on the eu launch of wow which was quite smooth, but i guess they were better prepared half a year later.
back to aoc, actually the launch date was the perfect date from planning shedule. No other big launches of any mmos not even any big single player games around that date. All big mmo or expansion releases were over 6 months ago, so you can expect a lot people to be a bit bored with the current games and willing to try something new, this is probably one of the main reasons for the huge box sales.
If they had pushed back a it then the expansion release for wow, war release and a few other expansion releases are getting closer and closer so chances are high that initial game sales would have been lower.
the big question is how much the game would have profited from a few more months. technically i guess it would have launched with the DX10 renderer then and maybe some less crashes, but from technical point aoc was quite ready, yes some people had performance problems some had crashes but these things were not too sever for the majority so i guess that would not have made a big difference (since even with longer beta they would not have fixed all performance issues and all crashes). Content is the next point, how much more would have been in for a sept launch? I personally think that the main thing that would have changed is that the now existing content might have been more polished, but i think that the areas where there is not much content now, would still miss more content.
that leaves the question if that would have improved the game that much, to make it good enough to be the one game that players pick in the direct comparison. Wow will selll a lot of its expansions for sure since they allready have a huge community. War has the advantage of lower system requirements over aoc which might give it the edge in a direct face to face launch (not sure if it really would).
So overall i think funcom had a max. window of about 1 month to push back the release, which might have helped the game but often is hard to decide as you have to do these decissions 1-2 months earlier, since you have to order server hardware, get the dvd & box production running in time, shipments to retailers...
AOC is only gonna break one record. The most number of chancelled accounts after the first month in retail.
Not to be an ass, but you are like the tenth person I have seen using the incorrect spelling of the word "CANCEL". There is no H in it. Sorry, but it had to be said.
What?? do you even know how to make a correct poll? of course you don't seeing how you posted this. I heard playing in traffic was freaking fun.. not saying you should but wow I bet you'd have a great time.